Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as Belarus’s Alexander Lukashenko are among eight globe leaders to have actually obtained the Ig Nobel Prize in Medical Education for their feedback to the coronavirus, the award-giving Annals of Improbable Research publication revealed Thursday.
A satirical variation of the Nobel Prize, the Ig Nobel is awarded yearly at Harvard University, though this year’s event was relocated online due to the pandemic.
Putin and Lukashenko were identified “for making use of the Covid-19 viral pandemic to educate the globe that political leaders can have a much more immediate result on life as well as death than medical professionals and researchers can,” the organizers said.
The team of Medical Education champions also consisted of the U.S.’s Donald Trump, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, Britain’s Boris Johnson, India’s Narendra Modi, Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan as well as Turkmenistan’s strongman Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, that infamously advised his citizens to burn a typical natural herb to combat respiratory infections.
Russia at the top of its break out had the globe’s second-highest number of coronavirus infections. Putin took a hands-off method to the pandemic, leaving a lot of the responsibility to his prime minister and also Moscow’s mayor.
Unlike many countries, Belarus has kept its borders open throughout the pandemic and did not enforce lockdown actions to reduce its spread. Lukashenko himself has actually consistently rejected the infection’ intensity.
While none of the leaders existed to claim the honor, the group is entitled to a collective financial prize of one $10 trillion bill from Zimbabwe as well as a paper cube.
This is the second Ig Nobel for Lukashenko, that was granted in the Peace category along with Belarus’s police in 2013 for introducing a ban on public praise and for detaining a one-armed man for applauding.
This year’s Ig Nobel Peace Prize was granted to the federal governments of India as well as Pakistan “for having their mediators surreptitiously sound each other’s buzzers in the middle of the evening, and after that flee before any person had an opportunity to respond to the door.”